Film
The Gold Diggers
- 7PM
- 9:15PM
Made with an all-female crew, Sally Potter's bold feature debut is a surrealist science-fiction musical that explores the link between female cinematic representation and capitalist exploitation amid a dreamlike universe of wintry tundras, vaudeville stages, and ballrooms. The avant-garde art direction and gorgeous black-and-white cinematography (courtesy of Chantal Akerman collaborator Babette Mangolte) evoke a world pitched somewhere between Chaplin and Magritte.
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